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Left out

"Grrr", it was a soft growl but a growl none the less, he hated this, detested it, abhorred it and any other synonym would not nearly fit the amount of disdain he had for it, oh well you look at that, another synonym, wouldn't Jazz be proud?

Oh right, no she wouldn't, she was too busy with her books, too busy, like everyone else.

The Oldman was at a meeting with the annoying one eyed freaks, the Dreambastard got dragged with him, squirt was training with Pandora and the kid was at school. That left him, alone in the Citadel with abso-fucking-lutely nothing to do.

Not that he wanted to do something anyway, he could destroy shit sure, but that would only piss off Clockwork when he got back and boy was he an asshole after a meeting, Nocturne would be even more of a prick too, plus wrecking shit wasn't as fun unless someone was screaming in terror.

He could go see how Dani was doing, since Clockwork had to go to this meeting, Pandora had offered to train her in his place, going to the Ghost Zone version of Athens did sound like an intriguing idea, he could always fight the Minotaur, but for some reason he couldn't bring himself to go there make a scene and spoil the child's fun, even he wasn't that petty.

Danny was in school, he wasn't even going to bother.

And so the "Great Dan Phantom" slid slowly down, from where he was standing, and sat knees up with his back braced against a non-moving cog, he sat there feeling miserable and utterly alone.

Daniel "Danny" Fenton, was not at school. As a matter of fact he got a day off and so did everybody else, 'section C1' of the school was utterly destroyed in the latest ghost attack, and usually classes would just resume in the 'section H3' buut the teacher for section C1 and H3 was… unavailable.

No he wasn't dead Lancer was much too stubborn for that, Since Lancer practically teaches the whole school anyway and they hadn't the time to find a sub for the sub, they let all his student out for a "free-day." Of course they would have to make this day back up somewhere in their Holiday break, but for now…

"Free-day!"

"Jeez Tuck, hype much?"

"Ha and ha, Sam", deadpanned the beret wearing boy.

"Hey I'm not the one who looks like a total nut case sticking my arms up shouting 'free-day' as if we're not going to have to pay this back during our holiday break, it's more like interest-day if anything"

"Fine, fine since you wanna be such a downer, it's 'semi-freeday', how's that sound?" he asked the Goth with a smirk.

Said Manson girl simply rolled her eyes.

Danny behind her simply groaned, half in frustration and half in a tired yawn.

"What's up Danny?"

"Yeah dude, you look more dead than usual"

Now the Fenton boy rolled his eyes

"Gee thanks Tuck, why don't you spend all night doing home-work and fighting ghost till 3am?"

"Du-"

"What's worse is that because we don't have class today or tomorrow probably, I did this for nothing" , his point punctuated by two hands, one with papers, presumably the afore mentioned homework and the other with absolutely nothing in it, both were flailing wildly as the owner expressed his frustrations. Sam had to duck a bit to avoid getting smacked in the face by chemistry papers?

"Alright, calm down Danny, look on the bright side…" she paused, "wow it really is bad when the Goth is the one telling you to look on the bright side"

Tucker snorted, while the corner of Danny's lip lifted a little.

"What I mean is, let's not look a gift horse in the mouth, we have a day off, why not make the most of it?"

With that the trio headed towards Sam's, talking of non-descript things along the way, the Doom session they were going to have would be the best thing ever, they would have hours upon hours to play and the best thing was, it wasn't even a weekend!

"Right!"

"Right!"

"Left!"

"Left!"

"Right!"

"Right!" shouted Dani and the twins.

Pandora had been training her since this morning and she had to admit, it was fun, especially with her newly appointed cousins.

The Twins as everyone called them, were the youngest in Pandora's guard, they were only a couple of centuries old, but they were fierce, strong and loyal, just like their "Mistress". They appeared to be 17 or 18 years old, with medium length flaming black hair, pale blue skin and green eyes.

Dani knew well enough that red eyes symbolized power, and flaming hair did to an extent as well but it was normally reserved for the older ghosts, who'd been around for ages, these two, well they were young and by the laws of the ghost zone all young ghosts (that showed power at least) were to be placed under a guardian of their choosing till the individual was sufficiently able to control their abilities. Having wondered why the Twins picked Pan as their guardian, during a short break, she voiced her question aloud, only to have it answered by one of the oldest members of Pandora's Guardians.

Edulo was quite tall and broad for one his age, and he like all the other members of the Guardians, he wore his traditional Greek armour. He was grey skinned with a small black beard that made him look like an anorexic Santa-Claus, well at let to Dani anyway, the old man had a friendly aura that simply reminded you of a really cool grandpa and so the young Phantom decided to call him that, much to his chagrin.

"So grandpa-"

"Edulo child-"

"Why did the Twins pick auntie Pan as their Guardian?"

"It's simple", the elder paused slightly, "it's because she saved them"

"They were once slaves, formed together and enslaved together, this is why they never part, and their fate was sealed until an angel in gold freed them"

"Angel? Oh you mean-"

"Yes child, Pandora had almost single handily destroyed the slave trade and the slave masters with it, all the slaves were set free and relocated, some had faded into peace but others like the twins stayed and when asked they chose their saviour to guard them as she did before"

"Now Children, we've made wonderful progress, you still have to work on your stances Danielle, but with enough practice the muscle memory should kick in, but that's it for training today"

"Cool. Thanks Auntie Pan"

"Not a problem my dear", the Guardian of the box smiled widely, giving the child high fives.

"I'll head off, 'gonna check on Danny and the others, see ya!"

With that the young Phantom waved goodbye to Pandora and the Twins and flew towards Amity.

The Meeting with the council was as important and meaningful as watching paint dry, Nocturne was long irritated and complaining about the sheer pointlessness of it, leaving Clockwork to debate whether he should shut the Dreamweaver up or join in on the rant- of course an Observant made that decision for him.

"You both are 'Masters', you are to uphold power and respect, your responsibilities can't just be shunned for an hour or two, it is constant work you must put up, these breaks of yours are getting ridiculous, more so yours Clockwork, I'm beginning to think your charges are distracting you, maybe we should have them removed-"

Nocturne's mouth formed an 'O', he backed a step or two away from the Time Master, looking the Observant dead in the eye, he shook his head, the classic sign for this perfect "you fucked up royally" moment, the Observant didn't care, yet.

Crimson eyes were steely, "you dare bring my charges into this?"

"Of course Clockwork, after all they are a distraction and what's worse, not only do they distract the both of you from your oh so difficult jobs-"

"Hey-", started Nocturne indignantly.

"But they distract the Guardian Pandora as well, is that not why she is absent from this meeting? Hmm?" The Ocular ghost seemed smug, that is until he glanced back at two seemingly fuming 'Masters'.

Let's just say, having one irate 'Master' was tough, having two pissed off ones was-well mentioning the "offing of the charges" wasn't exactly the best thing on the Observant's part. Everyone knew how protective Clockwork was of his charges and Nocturne had basically adopted them anyway, so yeah…

On that note the meeting finished relatively early.

"Sam go left"

"I can't, my HP is too low, can't you run it?"

"Mine is lowers than yours"

"I'm at full health, and guess who has health packs"

"Tucker!", they shouted.

"I'm on it! And you said my five extra health packs were too much, look who needs me now"

The trio were on their fifth hour of gaming, so close to beating the custom level they created to play, it turned out to be much more complicated than they thought, but they loved the challenge.

"Danny, it's on you, go now, I'll cover"

"Yeah, go dude, Sam, I'll stealth through it"

"Alright Tuck, Danny's up front, so he should cover you if anything, got an EMP?"

"Oh you know I do", smirked the tech geek.

The Goth smirked back, "Then we got this in the bag"

…

"The bag exploded then disintegrated into ashes, that's what"

"You got that right Tuck"

"Ugh! We were so close!"

Danny reached down to pat the Goth, who was sitting upside down in a purple bean bag chair, on the shoulder, Sam simply slumped some more.

"We got severely rekt", sighed Tucker dejectedly, he then perked up "who's up for another round?"

Instantly the other two straightened up simultaneously, "I am!"

Suddenly Danny's ghost sense went off.

"Count me in too!"

All three heads turned to see Dani phasing into the room.

"Up for a game cuz?"

Danny smirked, "You know it"

"Alright, four player it is!"

"You got it Tuck?-"

"Yeah, just lemme, hook it up-and there! All set Dani"

Tucker passed her the extra control and the clone selected her character.

"Nice balance there Dani, hope on my side, Tuck's got stealth and Danny's got speed, we got some big guns, let's back 'em up"

"You got it Sam!"

With Danny running the front and Tucker on the side in stealth mode, the boys made it a good distance, Dani and Sam provided enough cover to get them even further than they did last time. The four continued the game, immersed and concentrated all determined to win for Team Phantom.

When Clockwork arrived at the Citadel, with Nocturne in tow, the first thing he noticed was Dan sitting in a corner, quirking a brow he moved over to the Phantom.

"Are you alright Dan?"

"What do you want Oldman?"

"I was simply checking on you, you're not usually one for sitting in corners and-"

"I was thinking-"

"About-"

"None of your damn business", snapped the Phantom, he rose, albeit shakily, to his feet.

"Dan"

"What?!"

"I'm just concerned-"

"And why's that?, he spat.

"You're paler than usual and your hair isn't even aflame"

The Phantom truly didn't look normal, but other than the paleness and the lack of fiery locks defying gravity, Clockwork couldn't discern much, Dan tended to be moody majority of the time so that didn't really help him come to a conclusion.

"I'm fine Oldman-", he smacked away the Time Keeper's gloved hand, he knew Clockwork was trying to check if he had a fever but he didn't want anyone touching him right now. Turning he moved to head to the stairs.

"Where are you going?", asked Nocturne

"Bed", the Phantom replied sourly.

"Do you want me to-"

"No I don't want your damn dust anywhere near my face-"

"Dan", toned Clockwork warningly, there was concern in his voice aswell.

"I'm fine!"

With that Dan stormed upstairs and into his room. Truth was, he wasn't fine, ever since this morning, his core ached, like a throb, it was a dull ache but it was constant too, he felt like it was splitting. He could ignore the ache sure…for now at least, but it still didn't explain his pale complexion or why his hair wouldn't flame like it usually did.

Deep inside he had an idea, but he refused to accept it, he had thought about it long and hard, come to think of it, it wasn't till he thought about it was when he felt the ache in his core, something was wrong, was it him? His obsession? What even was his obsession again?

What happens to a ghost that loses their obsession?

AN/: So this was I thing I ended up writing instead of the next part of the damn pieces arc, welp life, speaking of life, I kinda just got "evicted" from my apartment? Like I was renting what was basically the house from my adopted aunt, shit happened and she needed money, so she sold the house, yeah, so I had to move, I've literally been traveling up and down because college, which by the way I have to do another year of because I fucked up Calculus, yay math! -_-

Anyway, I'll be staying with my Uncle, I actually posted this minutes before midnight because I was moving my stuff and ish, i'm getting settled and stuffs and pizza should be coming soon, so that's a plus, I can probably continue this if y'all want, you guys decide.

Also shout out to Kim and Poly, y'all are keeping me going, kim thanks for legit the sole review on the last chapter, this week and the week before was just hell and there was nothing, no emails, nada and with the apartment and the moving and like- your two little sentences… they helped a lot thanks.

But anyway you guys know the drill, send me your requests, and I'll write 'em, ask me your questions and I'll answer them, send me your reviews and I'll smile like the little nut I am.

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